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...Putting the shot; 2, light weight wrestling (preliminary bout); 3, heavy weight sparring; 4, feather weight wrestling (preliminary); 5, light weight sparring (preliminary); 6, middle weight sparring (preliminary); 7, heavy weight wrestling; 8, light weight wrestling (final); 9, feather weight wrestling (final); 10, light weight sparring (final); 11, middle weight sparring (final...
...excitement, and none that surpass it in the interest taken in its outcome. Then the "dangerous character" is not so much the fault of the event as it is of the candidates for the team. When a man thinks of entering a race, a jumping match, or a boxing bout, etc., he prepares himself for it by a long course of careful and faithful training. He does not wait until within three or four weeks, and then by a few irregular trials, each to his utmost capacity, attempt to put himself in good form and condition. As a general rule...
...following are the events and entries: Feather-weight wrestling-H. S. McPherson, H. A. A. Middle-weight wrestling-J. H. Alward, H. A. A., A. H. Howard, B. A. A. Light-weight wrestling-Sumner Paine, B. A. A., Henry Taggard, B. A. A. Heavy weight wrestling: first bout-J. H. Alward, H. A. A., W. H. Shea, H. A. A. Light weight sparring-A. P. Hunt, B. A. A., and instructor. Heavy-weight sparring-D. W. Shea, B. A. A. Heavy-weight wrestling: final bout-A. H. Howard, B. A. A. and winner of first bout. Fencing: first bout-Samuel...
...first round in middle weight wrestling Alward threw Howard in 181/2 seconds, an exceedingly pretty throw; in the second round Howard forfeited after a short trial. In the light weight wrestling Paine and Taggard were tied after wrestling fifteen minutes. The event will be finished tonight. The first bout in heavy weight wrestling was won by Alward in 2m, 41 3 4s. The final bout will take place tonight. The final bout of the fencing was won by Curtis Guild against A. H. Howard, 5 to 4. In the middle weight sparring R. Kuhn...
...next event was the first bout in the tug-of-war, which was to be decided by the best two out of three five-minute pulls, instead of a single tug as usual. The teams were as follows: Columbia-1, C. H. Hart; 2, E. C. Robinson; 3, E. Harris, (capt.); G. M. Elliot, (anchor). Harvard-1, E. W. Grew; 2, F. O. Raymond, Jr.; 3, J. Endicott, (captain); G. Perry, (anchor). Columbia won 1 inch on the drop, but retained only half an inch at the end of the first minute. At two minutes Columbia had 1 inch again...